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HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) – Iran believes Afghanistan would never allow its soil to be used by the United States to launch an attack, the Iranian foreign minister said here Saturday.
Read More »50 Taliban Killed in Afghanistan Battles
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – U.S.-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan’s poppy-growing belt, officials Saturday.
Read More »Combined forces kill nearly 3 dozens Taliban insurgents in S Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and the U.S.-led coalition forces during an hours-long operation killed nearly three dozen Taliban fighters Saturday in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
Read More »Funeral held for digger killed in Afghanistan
Prime Minister John Howard, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd and Defence Force head Angus Houston have joined mourners at Brisbane’s Saint Stephen’s Cathedral for the military funeral of trooper David Pearce.
Read More »Canadian government plans to extend Afghanistan mission
The Canadian government plans to extend the country’s Afghanistan mission until at least 2011 — two years beyond the proposed February 2009 deadline.
Read More »Would-be suicide bomber kills his mother, 3 siblings in southern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan: A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family’s home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said.
Read More »In Afghanistan, a Fiancee Aged 3
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.
Read More »Taliban suicide bomber kills 7 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed one policeman and six civilians in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, a police commander said.
Read More »US Marines propose moving force from Iraq to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Marine Corps reportedly wants to withdraw its entire force from Iraq to focus its combat efforts on Afghanistan.
Read More »Germany Extends Mission in Afghanistan
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s lower house of parliament on Friday overwhelmingly approved extending the deployment of 3,000 troops and six reconnaissance jets in Afghanistan for another year, despite mounting public skepticism about the mission.
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